Description
A masterful example of the psychological novel in
French literature, this edition has been designed to help the English-speaking
student approach the original French through the use of a thorough and
informative introduction, ample and informative notes and study questions, all
of which are contained in one convenient volume
Pierre et Jean is a naturalist work written by Guy de
Maupassant in 1887. It tells the story of a middle-class French family whose
lives are changed when a deceased family friend, leaves his inheritance to
Jean. This provokes
Pierre
to doubt the fidelity of his mother and the legitimacy of his brother.
Features/Table of Contents
Contents
Introduction
Notes stylistiques
Chronologie
La vie maritime: Vocabularie et exercices
Le Roman: essai de Guy de Maupassant
Carte de la côte Normandie
Pierre et Jean
Market
The
Focus Student Editions are appropriate as introductory texts for French
language courses in literature and culture.
Focus Student Edition Series:
Camara
Laye: L'Enfant noir Corneille: Le Cid
Moliere:
L'Ecole des femmes Voltaire:
Candide ou l'Optimisme
About the Authors
Eileen M. Angelini received her B.A. in French from
Middlebury
College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in
French Studies from
Brown
University. She is
Professor of French and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages at
Canisius
College. Dr. Angelini has won research
grants from the
U.S.,
French, and Canadian governments. She is a frequent presenter at national and
regional conferences and the author of publications on literary analysis, and
on pedagogy, focusing on the professions and cross-cultural communication. Dr.
Angelini is a Question Leader for the AP French Language Examination and a
College Board Consultant. Dr. Angelini was awarded the 2008 AATF Dorothy Ludwig
National Award for Outstanding Teacher of the Year.
Myrna Bell
Rochester (A.B. Romance Languages,
University of
Chicago; M.A., Ph.D. French, U.C.L.A.)
also studied at the Université de Genève. Her book on Surrealist poet and novelist
René Crevel was published in Stanford French and Italian Studies (René Crevel: Le Pays des miroirs absolus). Dr. Rochester taught at
U.C.L.A.,
Menlo
College, and Stanford. She is a
free-lance book editor and the author of college texts: Rendez-vous, Entrée
en scène, Bonjour, ça va? and Vis-à-vis, as well as a trade text, Easy
French Step-by-Step).
Dr. Rochester is the co-editor of the
French literary classics series for Focus Publishing: Camara Laye's L'Enfant noir, Molière's L'École des femmes, Maupassant's
Pierre et Jean, Voltaire's Candide, and Corneille's Le Cid. Her criticism includes studies
of Simone de Beauvoir, Béatrix Beck, Dominique Desanti, and other women writers of the World War II era. She
contributed English translations to Surrealist
Women: An International Anthology
(ed. Penelope Rosemont) and to the award-winning Black, Brown and Beige: Surrealist Writings from
Africa
and the Diaspora (eds. Franklin Rosemont and Robin D. G. Kelley). Dr.
Rochester contributes to the UK-based online Literary Encyclopedia.
Reviews
FRENCH REVIEW, Vol. 82, No. 2 (2008), pp.
448-449
From NECTFL Review #62 (Spring/Summer)
These
editions are meant to provide students with a smooth transition from the study
of language to the study of literature. As a matter of fact, they oftentimes
provide a bridge that leads imperceptibly from one to the other (this is
particularly true in the case of L’enfant noir, the story of a boy’s
youth told with meticulous contextualization, considerable repetition, and
constant rephrasing — characteristic techniques of the oral storytelling
tradition).... [T]he Focus Student Edition of L’enfant noir is currently
the best available. It has great merit. AP and non-AP teachers of Francophone
literature should not hesitate to adopt it.
~ J. Vincent H. Morrissette,
Fairfield
University